GanDa BherunDa - Emblem of Mysore Wodeyars(Kings)
By anirudh on 2009-09-22
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Mysore Dasara is in full swing, so this could be good one to share. GanDaBherunDa is an imaginary bird with two heads. Wodeyars have a very beautiful and precious GanDaBherunDa made out gold and decked with diamonds and rubies, will try to get that picture and upload here. One can see all those precious jewels exhibition in the palace during the 9days Dasara festival.
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judelined
Mon, 2009-10-05 22:52
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Anirudh the flowers and effects are very beautiful - very neat kolam..
Sumathi.v
Mon, 2009-10-05 23:12
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very nicely done..When I was a child, my grandmother use to tell me bedtime stories about GanDaBherunDa pakshi. But only now i knew it is a double headed bird.Children these days are missing all this fun.I rather we are in no frame of mind to sit with them for stories.
rajamma_2
Mon, 2009-10-05 23:25
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Anirudh very nice birdy kolam. and the information about these birds are interesting. waiting to see the picture s.
rajamma
ashanagendra
Tue, 2009-10-06 02:20
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Thumba chennagide Anirudh!!(its very nice).
lakshmiraghu
Tue, 2009-10-06 05:49
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Anirudhji, it come out very beautiful.....
jkmrao
Tue, 2009-10-06 06:12
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Nice creation. Why did you not try it on all four sides?
Regards! - mOhana
jayamohan
Tue, 2009-10-06 06:40
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Good piece of information. Anirudh, I remember to see this emblem on their throne also, correct?
jkmrao
Tue, 2009-10-06 07:09
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When I was young, we used to devour stories called kASImajilI kathalu wherein we used to read stories about bold princes, helpless but beautiful princesses, cruel demons, mythical birds, etc. Even today, I love to read those. By the way, gaMDabhEruMDa was used by the Vijayanagar kings as well as the nAyaks of Madurai. The Mysore dynasty seems to be the late entrants. Also one of the manifestations of narasiMha (man-lion), the fourth avatAra of vishNu, is this mythical bird (jvAla, ugra, yOgA, lakshmI, gaMDabhEruMDa). Here are two pictures of this bird. In the latter, you may see the bird having the elephants in its claws and lions in the mouth!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/mythology/41967.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/mythology/41967.htm&usg=__qgRIAIkXJYJwjyKnX1PrgAwJe9E=&h=551&w=500&sz=77&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=W3VswTcIOVY46M:&tbnh=133&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgandabherunda%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
http://karnatakatemples.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gandabherunda.JPG
Regards! - mOhana
dibbutn
Wed, 2009-10-07 08:01
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Anirudhji very nice kolam and nice and bright colors too